Trial lessons are perfect if you're doubting which kind of class is more convenient for you. We will decide together on which aspects we want to focus during your learning! We can also use this time to discuss your learning goals, so we can make a personalized lesson plan for your future lessons.

Starting Spanish is easy. Starting it in a way that still holds up at B1 is the hard part.

I'm Jesús, a native teacher from Barcelona with a degree in Translation from Universitat Pompeu Fabra and ELE teacher training. I have taught more than 3,000 beginner lessons here on italki, and "great for beginners" is what students mention most in my reviews.

In these lessons we build the foundations in the right order:

- The verbs you actually need first, not an alphabetical list
- Ser and estar from day one, so it never turns into the problem it becomes for most learners
- Present and past tenses explained by how they work, not as tables to memorize
- Pronunciation fixed early, while it is still easy to fix

You will speak from the first lesson, but you will also understand why what you are saying is correct. That is the difference between a beginner who plateaus at B1 and one who keeps moving.

You also get my own practice materials to work on between classes.

Complete beginner or restarting after years away, both are welcome. Book a lesson, tell me where you are starting from, and I will build the first class around that.

Beginner Spanish: Speak Early, Understand Why

B1 is where Spanish stops being a course and starts being a language. It is also where most learners stall for years.

You can hold a conversation, but the subjunctive is still guesswork, preterite and imperfect are a coin flip, and por and para change meaning depending on who you ask. Nothing is wrong exactly, but nothing is solid either.

I'm Jesús, a native teacher from Barcelona with a degree in Translation from Universitat Pompeu Fabra and ELE teacher training. More than 5,900 lessons taught on italki, rated 5.0 across 99 reviews.

These lessons go straight at the things that keep breaking:

- The subjunctive, explained by what it does rather than by a list of triggers
- Preterite and imperfect, so you stop choosing by feel
- Por and para, ser and estar, and the other pairs that never quite settled
- The connectors and structures that make you sound like an adult instead of a textbook

I explain why Spanish works the way it does, so the rules stop breaking on real sentences and you stop guessing mid-conversation.

We can work entirely in Spanish, or switch to English when an explanation needs it. You decide, and it can change from one day to the next.

You also get my own practice materials, built for the exact things that trip people up at this level.

Book a lesson and tell me what keeps catching you out. I will build the first class around that.

Intermediate Spanish: Break the B1 Plateau

At C1 people stop correcting you. That is exactly the problem.

You are fluent enough that everyone lets things slide, so the same handful of habits stay with you for years: the subjunctive you avoid rather than use, the three connectors you always reach for because they are safe, the small slips that mark you as foreign in the first thirty seconds.

I'm Jesús, a native teacher from Barcelona with a degree in Translation from Universitat Pompeu Fabra and ELE teacher training. More than 5,900 lessons taught on italki, rated 5.0 across 99 reviews.

These lessons run in Spanish, and my job is to be the person who does correct you, with the reason behind each correction so it actually changes something instead of being noted and forgotten.

What we work on:

- Register: sounding right in an email, in a meeting, and in a bar, which are three different languages
- Nuance: the difference between correct and what a native would have said
- The expressions people really use, not the ones textbooks think they use
- The grammar that still leaks when you are tired or under pressure

You also get my own practice materials.

Book a lesson and tell me what you want to sound like. I will build the first class around that.

Advanced Spanish: The Mistakes Nobody Corrects

Catalan is not a dialect of Spanish. It is its own language, and the places where it looks most like Spanish are usually the places where it behaves differently.

I'm Jesús, born and raised in Barcelona, native in Catalan and Spanish, with a degree in Translation from Universitat Pompeu Fabra and ELE teacher training. More than 5,900 lessons taught on italki, rated 5.0 across 99 reviews.

These lessons are for you if:

- You live in Catalonia, or you are moving here, and you are tired of the conversation switching to Spanish the moment you hesitate
- You already speak Spanish and want to know which parts transfer and which ones quietly do not
- You have family or roots here and want the language back
- You like languages and want one that almost nobody teaches properly

We work on real Catalan: the pronunciation that gives learners away immediately, the weak pronouns that scare everyone off, the verbs, and the expressions people actually use in Barcelona. I explain how the language works rather than handing you lists to memorize, which matters even more in Catalan because there is so little material out there.

Every level, from your first word to polishing an advanced one. My own practice materials in PDF are included.

Book a lesson and tell me why you want Catalan. I will build the first class around that.

Catalan with a Barcelona Native: Any Level, From Zero

カタルーニャ語は「スペイン語の方言」ではなく、独立した一つの言語です。スペイン語とよく似て見えるところほど、実は動き方が違います。

バルセロナ出身のネイティブ講師で、授業は100%日本語で進めます。italki での指導は5,900レッスン以上、評価は5.0（レビュー99件）です。

発音、弱代名詞、過去形の作り方など、日本語話者がつまずくところを日本語で一つずつ説明しますので、「なんとなく分かった」で終わりません。カタルーニャ語は教材そのものが少ない言語なので、仕組みから説明できる講師と学ぶ意味が特に大きいと思います。

こんな方に向いています。

・バルセロナやカタルーニャに住んでいて、周りの会話が分かるようになりたい方
・仕事や手続きで必要になった方
・スペイン語をすでに学んでいて、もう一つの言語に広げたい方
・単純にカタルーニャ語に興味がある方

授業の合間に使える練習教材もお渡しします。スペイン語との違いが分かるように作っています。

まずはレッスンを予約して、何のためにカタルーニャ語が必要かを教えてください。それに合わせて最初の授業を組み立てます。

日本語で学ぶカタルーニャ語｜バルセロナ出身のネイティブ講師

Most conversation lessons are a pleasant chat where nobody tells you what you got wrong. You leave having practiced your mistakes for an hour.

This is not that.

We talk properly, about things worth talking about. But I keep track of what you say and I give you back the corrections that matter: the mistakes you repeat, the ones a native notices in the first minute, and the sentences that were technically correct but that nobody would ever actually say.

I'm Jesús, a native teacher from Barcelona with a degree in Translation from Universitat Pompeu Fabra and ELE teacher training. Teaching languages since 2012, more than 5,900 lessons on italki, rated 5.0 across 99 reviews.

How it works:

- You bring the topic or I bring one. Culture, work, films, news, what happened to you this week
- We stay in Spanish. I switch to English only when an explanation genuinely needs it
- Corrections go into the chat as we speak, so you keep them after the lesson
- We come back to your recurring mistakes until they stop being recurring

This is Spanish from Spain, and I will tell you when something you learned is Latin American, so you can choose rather than mix them by accident.

A2 and upwards. If you can hold a slow conversation, you are ready.

Book a lesson and tell me what you want to be able to talk about. We start there.

Spanish Conversation, and Why You Said It Wrong

Your Spanish is fine until the meeting starts. Then it turns into a different language: nobody speaks slowly, the emails use a register nobody taught you, and the ten minutes of small talk before the call are somehow harder than the call.

I'm Jesús, a native teacher from Barcelona with a degree in Translation from Universitat Pompeu Fabra and ELE teacher training. Teaching languages since 2012, more than 5,900 lessons on italki, rated 5.0 across 99 reviews. Translation is my first profession, so register and tone are the part of the language I know best, and they are exactly what goes wrong at work.

What we work on:

- Meetings: interrupting politely, disagreeing without sounding rude, asking someone to repeat without losing authority
- Email and messages: the standard formulas, how formal is too formal, and the phrases that make you sound like machine translation
- Calls and presentations, rehearsed until they are boring
- Small talk with colleagues and clients, which is where the relationship actually gets built
- Your own sector vocabulary, built from your real documents

Bring me a real email you have to answer, a real deck, or a real meeting you are dreading. That is the best possible first lesson, and we work backwards from it.

This is Spanish from Spain, useful if you deal with Spanish companies or clients. B1 and upwards. If you are below that, start with my general lessons and come back to this one.

Book a lesson and tell me what your job actually requires of you in Spanish.

Business Spanish: Meetings, Emails and Small Talk

DELE is not really a Spanish test. It is a test of whether you can do the specific things the exam asks for, in the format it asks for them, with a clock running. That is why people who speak good Spanish fail it, and why other people pass at a level above the one they actually have. Both of those are preparation problems, not language problems.

I'm Jesús, a native teacher from Barcelona with a degree in Translation from Universitat Pompeu Fabra and ELE teacher training from International House. Teaching languages since 2012, more than 5,900 lessons on italki, rated 5.0 across 99 reviews.

How we prepare:

- We start with a diagnostic to find which of the four papers is actually going to cost you the exam. It is usually not the one you are worried about
- Reading and listening: this is as much a test of reading speed and note taking as it is of Spanish, so we train it as such
- Written expression: you write, I correct against the real assessment criteria, and you find out what the examiners are counting
- Oral expression: we run the real format with the real timings, until it stops being frightening
- The grammar and vocabulary your exact level demands, targeted instead of general

Bring me your exam date and your level, and I will build the plan backwards from it. If the date is close, we go straight to the papers that move your score the most.

A2 if you need it for nationality, B1 and B2 for work and study, C1 and C2 for academic and professional purposes. Tell me which one you are sitting and why, and we start from there.

DELE Exam Preparation: A2 to C2, Built Around Your Date

Most people learning Catalan do not have a grammar problem. They have a "the conversation switched to Spanish the second I hesitated" problem.

That is what this lesson is for. We talk in Catalan, as slowly as you need at the start, and we build up until you can hold your own with someone who is not being paid to be patient with you.

I'm Jesús, born and raised in Barcelona and native in Catalan, with a degree in Translation from Universitat Pompeu Fabra and ELE teacher training. Teaching languages since 2012, more than 5,900 lessons on italki, rated 5.0 across 99 reviews.

What we actually do:

- Real conversation about real things: your week, your work, what is going on in the city
- Pronunciation, which is the single thing that decides whether people keep speaking Catalan to you or switch to Spanish out of kindness
- The everyday expressions that never show up in textbooks, partly because there are barely any textbooks
- Corrections as we go, written into the chat, so you still have them after the lesson

This is Catalan as it is spoken in Barcelona, not a standard that nobody actually uses.

A2 and upwards. If you already speak Spanish you will move faster than you expect, and I will tell you exactly where the two languages stop matching, which is the part that catches everyone out.

Book a lesson and tell me who you need to talk to in Catalan. We start there.

Catalan Conversation With a Barcelona Native

「スペイン語を英語で習うのは、なんだかもどかしい」
「文法の説明が、いまひとつ腑に落ちない」

そんな方のためのレッスンです。

バルセロナ出身のネイティブ講師で、授業は100%日本語で進めます。italki での指導は5,900レッスン以上、評価は5.0（レビュー99件）です。

ser と estar の使い分け、接続法、点過去と線過去。日本語話者がつまずくところはだいたい決まっていて、その「なぜそうなるのか」を日本語で一つずつ説明します。ルールを丸暗記するのではなく仕組みから分かるので、勘に頼らずに使えるようになります。

レッスンで扱うこと：

・発音（最初のうちに直しておくと、あとがずっと楽になります）
・文法の「なぜ」を日本語で。英語を経由しません
・その場で口に出して使う練習
・私が作ったオリジナルの練習教材（無料でお渡しします）

「以前習ったけれど、ほとんど忘れてしまった」という方も大丈夫です。今どこまで分かるかを一緒に確認して、そこから組み立て直しましょう。

まずはレッスンを予約して、今つまずいているところを教えてください。それに合わせて最初の授業を組み立てます。

日本語で分かるスペイン語｜文法の「なぜ」から説明・初心者歓迎

Certificate by the UPF where it shows I have a C2 level in catalan in addition of being a native speaker.

Certificate of 3 month extensive course of Spanish Teaching as a Foreign Language

Japanese N3 (approx. B2 level) certificate.

4 years degree on Translation and interpreting in 4 languages (English & German to Spanish and Catalan). Mainly focused on translation from and to English.

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Japanese teacher in the weekly course "Japonès" (Japanese language) offered by Fundació Marianao in Casal Marianao, Sant Boi de Llobregat (Barcelona).

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